A two-phase unwrapping three-dimensional measurement method based on phase shift coding

Abstract

The periodic misalignment of the wrapping phase and fringe order based on the phase-shift + coding method is known to occur easily, leading to jump errors in absolute phase recovery. This paper proposes a two-phase unwrapping method based on shifting-phase coding. This approach encodes the fringe order information and the wrapping phase into the four-step phase shift mode. It generates four composite fringe patterns to directly resolve the wrapping phase and fringe order, thus improving the measurement speed by reducing the number of fringe projections. The interleaved wrapping phases are then constructed by a sequence that changes the initial wrapping phase. The two-phase unwrapping becomes the absolute phase, so the phase error is avoided and the measurement accuracy is improved. The proposed strategy’s effectiveness is proved by the comparison experiments of different methods. Similarly, the suggested method’s reliability is verified by the measurement experiments of several discontinuous objects.